Monday, August 10, 2015

1909 ~ Ft. Brown barracks burn October 15

 Fort Brown Barracks tinted postcard

Brownsville Herald October 15, 1909
Three years after the Brownsville Raid Fred Tate, John Scanlon, R.B. Creagar and Vicente Crixell all came out to help put out the fire engulfing the barracks at Fort Brown.  Mayor Combe got in on the fun too.  If you want to really know what happened without really knowing what happened you can start by trying to read between the scratch lines of these digitized newspaper microfilm scans.  It's a researcher's nightmare or challenge.


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